Woodchip cookers?

[gdh]

Does anyone know of any Rayburn/Aga style cookers that can be fuelled by woodchip (from a store, preferably not every couple of hours)? I've seen a few that use pellets but nothing with chip which we have a supply of already.

Any advice is welcome, we are looking for one that will heat water and cook like a traditional Rayburn.

[renewablejohn]

If you wanted to own your own Patisserie I know of some excellent thermal oil cookers which run on woodchip and provide all your hot water and central heating but the scale is a bit big.

 

Heuft - Biomass-Boiler

 

To get to domestic scale I have only seen wood pellet or logs. I use an Esse which I will be changing shortly for an Austrian Lohberger.

[Tom D]

I have tried my rayburn on all the bark and debris that collects at the bottom of the logstore, it goes really well if a little faster than logs. I think that if you could bag your chip into small bags and then put the whole bag on, it could be a convenient way to run on chip. You need to dry your chip though.

[gdh]

Thanks for the replies, we've just started to sell woodchip for biomass boilers so we have dry chip. We have a boiler which we're tempted to get our hot water from but it's quite far from the house and that boiler doesn't constantly run so we were looking at a the woodchip equivalent of our oil fuelled Rayburn. If it exists which seems unlikely.

[renewablejohn]

Thanks for the replies, we've just started to sell woodchip for biomass boilers so we have dry chip. We have a boiler which we're tempted to get our hot water from but it's quite far from the house and that boiler doesn't constantly run so we were looking at a the woodchip equivalent of our oil fuelled Rayburn. If it exists which seems unlikely.

 

You could turn you woodchip into torrefied wood then grind down to a talcum powder mix with water to form a charcoal slurry which you could use directly in your oil fuelled Rayburn.

 

Unfortunately the kit to do it is very expensive and you would then become a direct competitor